Applications In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers show that animal wings and fins (i.e. natural propulsors) “bend in similar ways within a highly predictable range of characteristic motions.” [Does this surprise anyone? Note: full article available for a … Continue reading →

NAFEMS Professional Simulation Engineer NAFEMS launched their Professional Simulation Engineer (PSE) competency certification and tracking system at their recent NAFEMS World Congress in Salzburg. Their system of PSE competencies has been developed over the course of several years by their … Continue reading →

A Survey for Engineering Software Users Cyon Research is conducting their annual survey of engineering software users. Because the survey takes 40 minutes to complete, participants will be sent the final results at no cost. Others will have to pay … Continue reading →

News & New Releases Aerosoft released GASP 5.1.2 including enhancements to its visualization capabilities and turbulence modeling. [Sorry that I’m late in posting this.] TYCHO is a freely-available compressible hydrodynamics code written in C and parallelized using OpenMP. While not … Continue reading →

Music to Generate Meshes By Would an album called Tessellations be an appropriate soundtrack for your daily meshing and CFD? (Or blog reading?) Applications & Events Idex Health & Science used CFD to eliminate energy loss and clogs in the … Continue reading →

International Meshing Roundtable News The International Meshing Roundtable is seeking nominations for the IMR-2012 Fellow Award, a reward that recognizes an individual with a distinguished record of research accomplishments in the area of mesh generation. The IMR-2011 Fellow Award was … Continue reading →